Grade 4 - Explorers


Runkle Online Encyclopedias & Databases (In School Access)

  1. Enchanted Learning - Explorers (alphabetical listing)
  2. Explorers of the World
  3. Discoverers Web
  4. CyberSleuth Kids- World Explorers
  5. European Explorers
    1. (Cabot, Columbus, da Gama, Hudson, Henry the Navigator, Magellan, Polo)
  6. Explorers of the New World
    1. (Cabot, Cabral, Columbus, Coronado, da Gama, Henry the Navigator, Hudson, Magellan, Pizarro, Polo, Ponce de Leon, Raleigh, de Soto, Vespucci)
  7. Who2.com


Links to Specific Explorers (Spring 2008)

  1. John Cabot (England)
    1. http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/cabot.php
    2. http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/cabot.html
    3. http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/cabot.html
  2. Pedro Alvares Cabral (Portugal)
    1. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9018462/Pedro-Alvares-Cabral
  3. Christopher Columbus (Spain)
    1. http://www.columbusnavigation.com
    2. http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/columbus.php
    3. http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/excolumbus.htm (links page)
  4. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (Spain)
    1. http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/coronado.htm
  5. Bartholomeau Dias (Portugal)
    1. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04775b.htm
  6. Vasco da Gama (Portugal)
    1. http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/exgama.htm (links page)
  7. Henry the Navigator
    1. http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/henry.html
  8. Henry Hudson (England)
    1. http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/
  9. Juan de Ponce de Leon
    1. http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/ponce.html
  10. Ferdinand Magellan (Spain)
    1. http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/magellan.php
    2. http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/exmagellan.htm (links page)
  11. Francisco Pizarro
    1. http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/pizarro/pizarro_a00.html
    2. http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/inca.html
  12. Marco Polo
    1. http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/expolo.htm (links page)
  13. Sir Walter Raleigh
    1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/raleigh_walter.shtml
  14. Hernando de Soto
    1. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04753a.htm
  15. Amerigo Vespucci
    1. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15384b.htm